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This sounds like a perfect fit for the eclectic, funky Playhouse on Park in West Hartford. It's a production of the loopy Charles Ludlam comedy "The Mystery of Irma Vep," the very funny show that features two actors performing an amazing variety of kooky characters at top flight speed. Directed by Peter James Cook (NYC's "Sailor Man," "The Tempest" "Paula Abdul's Straight Up Vampire"), the cast includes Sean Harris (director of drama at Hall High School and co-founder/artistic director at Playhouse on Park) and Rich Hollman (Playhouse's production of "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged"). The show runs...

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This sounds like a perfect fit for the eclectic, funky Playhouse on Park in West Hartford.It's a production of the loopy Charles Ludlam comedy "The Mystery of Irma Vep," the very funny show that features two actors performing an amazing...

Playwright-poet Marcus Gardley will be the Aetna New Voices Fellow at Hartford Stage during the 2011-2012 season. Gardley was awarded the 2011 PEN Laura Pels award for Mid-Career Playwright. He was recently chosen as one of “50 writers to...

Da'Vine Joy Randolph says she's been guided by good and powerful spirits.There were the spirits of the African-American classical singer who inspired her when she was in high school, of an acting mentor who guided her from music to theater when she was in...

Da'Vine Joy Randolph isn't the only recent Yale School of Drama grad in the spotlight in the Broadway musical,"Ghost," based in the 1990 hit film.Bryce Pinkham, who graduated in 2008 just as Randolph was entering the three-year program, is...

A play about a 15 year old boy who travels across Canada with his French high school teacher won the 2012 Yale Drama Series Award.The winner, "Beautiful Province" by Clarence Coo, was chosen by playwright John Guare ("Six Degrees of...

There will be a mixture of nine veteran, mid-career and new writers working this July at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford.Theresa Rebeck (Broadway’s “Seminar,” “Mauritius,” NBC’s “Smash”) will be...

Alexandru Mihail directs the Yale School of Drama production of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" Jan. 24 to 28 at 8 p.m. at the University Theatre, 222 York St., New Haven. There is a 2 op.m. performance on Saturday, Jan. 28.The cast includes...

The show: “Tryst” at Hartford’s TheaterWorksFirst impressions: Story of a con man in 1910 London who weds, beds and then sheds spinsters of their modest fortunes has its appeal in this fast-moving production that has suspense, romance, comedy, thrills and...

Tyne Daly, Lili Taylor, Alison Fraser are among the actors featured this summer in the plays and musicals at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the Massachusetts Berkshires.
As previously announced, the 58th season will feature: Oscar Wilde’s The...

Donald Pippin, the original music director for the Broadway production of "Mame" will offer his multi-media memoirs presentation for Goodspeed Musical members on Friday, June 8.Pippin has worked on some of the greatest hits in musical theater as...

David Marshall Grant sits at his desk in a nondescript office in an unmarked building in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, near the East River.That's where Broadway magic happens, at least by way of the new NBC series"Smash," which...

Jacques Lamarre is a pretty busy man these days.The director of communications at Hartford's Mark Twain House & Museum adapted Giulia Melucci's memoir "I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti" into a stage work which will have its world premiere...

A recently unearthed one-act play by Eugene O'Neill, "Exorcism," will receive a free reading this weekend at the 13th annual Eugene O'Neill Celebration at the Monte Cristo Cottage, the boyhood home of the playwright in New London.The celebration...

Earle R. Gister, who served as Associate Dean, Chair of the Acting Department at the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, and the first Lloyd Richards Professor (Adjunct) of Acting during his tenure at the school from 1979-1999, died at his home...

John Freedman, theater critic of The Moscow Times, and an expert on contemporary Russian theater, will be visiting Yale School of Drama next Thursday and Friday, Feb. 2 and 3. He will attend some playwriting and directing classes, meeting...

You can't help but feel the maternal touch of Phylicia Rashad.She exudes warmth, calm and centeredness that brings to mind ideal qualities of a mom. Her voice is honeyed and clear, her answers are specific and instructional, and when she says, "Oh,...

Hurricane Sandy was very theater-friendly.
Things didn't get really ominous until Sunday night, long after the curtain came down on most shows at theaters throughout Connecticut.
Then on Monday when the storm's fury -- and tides -- were at their...

Connecticut theater fans will have a few folks with local connections to root for when they tune in to Tony Award telecast on CBS 8 p.m. Sunday night, June 10.What could be a dramatic and emotional moment would be a win for Da'Vine Joy Randolph, nominated...

Christopher Baker, senior dramaturg, and Hana S. Sharif, associate artistic director, will leave Hartford Stage this month to pursue other facets of their careers, according to an announcement artistic director Darko Tresnjak made to the staff.Baker...